P3D Re: re: Dr. T's comments on Stereo New England

[roberts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (John W Roberts)]

>Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 08:46:19 -0700
>From: "Richard M. Koolish" <koolish@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: P3D  re: Dr. T's comments on Stereo New England

>Richard Koolish writes:
>> The club is what the members make of it.

>Dr. T writes:
>> Exactly!  You used the magic word "members" again. An organized club
>> has members.  Your get-together does not have members.

>I respond:
>    Dr. T implies that because we don't have elected officers that we
>    are disorganized and therefore can't be a club and that the people
>    who come to our meetings aren't members.  We have fixed meeting
>    dates, a computerized mailing list, and a bank account.  How much
>    more organized do we need to be?  

It sounds like something out of a "Monty Python" movie:
  [Two SNE members are quietly at work, mounting Realist slides. Dr. T
  comes riding up.]

Dr. T: I would speak with your club president.

SNE members: We 'aven't got one.

Dr. T: What?!!!

SNE members: We said we 'aven't got a club president.

Dr. T: How can you not have a club president?!

SNE members: We like to think of ourselves more as an autonomous collective...

:-)

John R


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